Re: [port-srv-reg] "xmp" service type and the unified IANA Service Name and Port Number Registry

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Bobby,

On 8/24/2011 5:14 AM, Bobby Krupczak wrote:
...
> I'm happy to change my service name as my software only needs the
> assigned port.
>
> Let me think of something cute and we can switch to that. Give me a
> couple of days to try to be creative with some sort of name. What is the
> service name criteria? How many letters/digits?

Please see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-10

The current list of assignments is here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
(NOTE: this takes a minute to load; IANA is working on that)

The spec (which also affected some legacy assignments, for a variety of 
reasons explained in that doc) is now:

5.1. Service Name Syntax

    Valid service names are hereby normatively defined as follows:

    o  MUST be at least 1 character and no more than 15 characters long

    o  MUST contain only US-ASCII [ANSI.X3-4.1986] letters 'A' - 'Z' and
       'a' - 'z', digits '0' - '9', and hyphens ('-', ASCII 0x2D or
       decimal 45)

    o  MUST contain at least one letter ('A' - 'Z' or 'a' - 'z')

    o  MUST NOT begin or end with a hyphen

    o  hyphens MUST NOT be adjacent to other hyphens

Since your protocol name is "XML Management Protocol", may I suggest 
"xml-mp" or "xml-mgt"? (these are just my personal offerings; you're 
welcome to come up with anything else of course).

Joe Touch
IANA Port Review Team Lead